Avera Health Foundation

The Avera Health Foundation exists to help people share in the Avera ministry of health and healing. We solicit gifts from our many friends and distribute them to meet health care needs of people throughout eastern South Dakota and neighboring states.

With our donors' gifts, we touch many lives in many ways. For example, we purchase meals, assist burn victims, establish wellness programs, remodel emergency rooms, test infants' hearing, develop hospice services, provide lodging for out-of-town patients, purchase pianos for retirement centers and supply a warm jacket and sturdy shoes patients who need them. Last year, generous donors contributed over $1 million for worthwhile projects at our partner-facilities.

Gifts & Donations

Local Disaster Assistance

Over the past several days, we have seen and heard many stories of the destruction caused by the tornadoes and heavy rains that fell across the region late last week. The property damage is extensive and many people in flooded areas are holding their breath to see if their basements will collapse once the water recedes. If you can make a financial contribution of $25, $50, $100, $500 or whatever size you are most comfortable with, please do so. We will direct your gift to relief efforts based in communities experiencing these hardships. The Avera Foundation will match the first $15,000 that is raised.

You can bring your check to the Avera Foundation or send it along with a note that it is for Local Disaster Assistance.  You may also take your check to your local Avera hospital’s Foundation office or make your gift via credit card by donating online. Please select the Avera Health Foundation Caring for Life as the designation for your gift.

• Donate On-line. See how easy it is to donate to the Avera Health Foundation.
• Alternative Gift Market. Avera Foundations throughout the region have come together to give you a convenient shopping solution by proposing these exciting gift alternatives. Shop the market >>

Links of Interest

• Foundations Throughout Avera
• Partners in Caring...Partners in Sharing
• Partners in Caring (PDF)
• Winter 2007 Getaway
• Leadership Redefined

Scholarships

• ARCH Scholarship (Avera Resources for Careers in Health)
• Leaders Scholarship  (PDF)

Avera Community Service Fund (Grants)

Avera Community Service Fund awarded 32 projects in 2007-2008. More than $4.5 million has been given since 1999.

Avera Health has decided to review and refocus the impact of the Community Service Fund. Consequently there will not be a funding cycle during 2008-2009. The Avera Foundation will provide an announcement to all previous applicants and award recipients as to the direction chosen by the Community Service Fund Committee and the Avera Health Board of Directors.

If you have specific questions pleas feel free to contact the Avera Foundation.

Planning for the Future

• Do You Need a Will?
• 10-Step Plan for Making a Will
• Choosing the Gift Option that Matches Your Goals
• Five Important Reasons to Have a Will
• Tax Deductible Annuity (PDF)

Contact Us

For more information about how you can help the healing ministry of an Avera facility, send us an email or contact:

• Jerry Soholt, President
  Avera Health Foundation
  3900 W Avera Drive
  Sioux Falls, S.D. 57108
  Phone: (605) 322-4752
  Fax: (605) 322-4666
  Jerry.Soholt@avera.org
• Dan Cook, Associate Director
  Avera Health Foundation
  3900 W Avera Drive
  Sioux Falls, S.D. 57108
  Phone: (605) 322-4751
  Fax: (605) 322-4666
  Dan.Cook@avera.org